the r/curatedtumblr -> tumblr migration is so funny to me. it's like going to the zoo and enjoying it so much you climb into the enclosure to live with the monkeys
this reply evokes such an incredible image in the mind’s eye
Basically what I did
I bet octopuses think bones are horrific. I bet all their cosmic horror stories involve rigid-limbs and hinged joints.
To an octopus, a human is like a thinking being with blood-stained coral growing inside it.
I need to sit down and breathe into a bag for a while.
Its parts were obscenely limited in their movement. Each hinge could open or close only a small amount before reaching its limit, yet by working in concert they demonstrated unexpected dexterity, moving and manipulating the objects before it with cunning equal to my own. It was more torso than limb, as though a seal had been stretched and warped, given long grasping tentacles filled with bones like bars of coral. It’s head was most horrid of all, flat and ovoid, jutting out too small from the trunk as though it belonged to a beast half its size.
The thing rose upon its lowermost appendages, two long trunks that ended in flat, protruding flippers that branched into stubby, grasping mockeries of a sucker. It’s triple-hinged uppermost limbs were similar, but the ends branched into five smaller tentacles, each with three hinges of their own.
I froze, as the thing’s gaze fell upon me and it opened its hideous fish-jaw, filled with thick, many-shaped teeth like white shards of stone, and spoke in a shrill, discordant babble. I felt its horrid dry grip on my flesh, as those hinged appendages closed on me like the legs of a crab.
I felt the heat of its body, tasted its noxious, oily flesh through my touch, and prepared for the end, and all went black as a swoon overtook me.
I awoke, some time later, the cold and comforting water, banished back to the comfort of the sea and the dark. I should be grateful I am alive. I should cast aside the experience like a half-remembered dream.
I shall never again go swimming in search of lights above. The last thing I recall before the darkness took me was my right eye popping free of the thing’s grasp enough to see into the distance for one brief moment.
I saw thousands of lights.
ok so it turns out “horror but it’s about something mundane from the perspective of a non-human animal” fucks severely
his wife has stocked his ponds with fish;
To keep it real i fuck him on the shore
Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please reblog.
I need to know if any of y'all remember animorphs.
#Number one book fair purchase
ALFUR - Hilda
PROPAGANDA:
Just a little guy. Pointy ears. Loves paperwork. Did I mention he's just a little guy? Look at him. So very little. My son.
Love for the tiny bureaucrat
by the way, it’s real bold of hollywood to be like “the writers and actors have unrealistic expectations, but WE know what we’re doing” when they got tricked into releasing morbius in theaters a second time.
first post !! nothing else
Perfect combination
Something I wish everybody would understand about bigotry of all sorts is that the thing our society is punishing is non-conformity. The more you do not conform the more you are punished.
Nonconformity can be anything from something as small as being goth, or generally not dressing like everybody else, to things as big as being a different race than the majority, or a different religion.
When you start thinking of bigotries in this context it really puts things into perspective. This might be a really helpful lens to look at these things through and help you understand political retoric and theories.
For some examples of this theory, let's look at racism. Dark skinned people have been talking about light-skinned privilege forever. While light skinned black people do still deal with racism, they're closer to conformity than dark-skinned people so they are punished less.
It's the same thing in the trans community. People who "pass" or are otherwise not immediately visibly distinguishable as trans are punished less than people who are visibly trans.
The same is true with anti-Semitism. Jews who do not keep a kosher diet and observe Jewish holidays are punished less than the ones who do because they are not conforming, while the ones who don't observe Jewish holidays are conforming.
And of course the same is true with disabled people. If you have the sort of disability that is invisible and doesn't need much accommodation you generally aren't punished very much by society, comparatively. But if you have a visible mobility aid and/or you do need accommodation you are viciously punished. But even if your disability is invisible, punishment is waiting the moment you don't conform. As a disabled person with an invisible disability, I am always shocked by how quickly and viciously I am punished on rare times when I do need accommodation.
But perhaps the best proof that what's actually being punished is non conformity is the treatment of intersex people like myself. Bigots will cry all day about the horrors of gender assignment medical procedures when they're used by trans people to live as their authentic selves, but they're suspiciously quiet about those same treatments being used on intersex kids. It's because those treatments are perfectly acceptable when being used to make an Intersex kid conform, but when they're used by a trans person to stop conforming to their assigned gender it's a horrible dangerous violence and should be banned.
That's why I'm suspicious of political movements that try to broaden the definition of what conformity is rather than trying to end the practice of punishing anybody who doesn't conform.
Hey, could you do me a favor?
Could you just RB this?
The little RB statistics chart is so pleasant and stimmy to look at and I want to see what it looks like when it gets really REALLY huge because it makes me think of some deep sea lifeform
I gotcha
"I started coughing up blood a few months ago, but I knew I had this appointment scheduled and I didn't want to make a fuss"